LINGUIST List 13.1030

Mon Apr 15 2002

Qs: Korean Lexicology, Vowels/Old Japanese

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  • Christine Tellier, Corean lexicology
  • Les Zsoldos, Old Japanese

    Message 1: Corean lexicology

     Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 18:22:50 -0400
    From: Christine Tellier <christine.tellierumontreal.ca>
    Subject: Corean lexicology


    Dear colleagues,

    I am looking for any information concerning corean lexicology - including, of course, morphology. The prime interest concerns the loanwords from American English. One of my PhD Corean students (South) argues that there is no paper, text of any kind nor book on the subject - from any point of view : linguistic, sociolinguistic, terminologic . But he admits not to have read even the introductions to the 20 dictionaries published within his domain (Stock Exchange/Market terminology).

    Can anyone help, bringing useful references on south and/or South/North Corean? Many thanks in advance for your help.

    Louise Dagenais Departement de linguistique et de traduction Universite de Montreal C. P. 6128, succ. Centre-ville Montreal (Quebec) H3T 1J1 Canada

    Please, answer directly to Louise.Dagenaisumontreal.ca



    Message 2: Old Japanese

     Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 14:04:26 +0000
    From: Les Zsoldos <lgzsfu.ca>
    Subject: Old Japanese




    In Masayoshi Shibatani's 'The languages of Japan', he claims that Old Japanese had eight vowels. In addition to the five in Modern Japanese, there were three others: the low front vowel ae, and two central vowels transcribed as the high front rounded vowel in German 'ueber' (over) and German 'hoeren' (to hear). My question is this: How can the author be so sure these vowels were central vowels? Furthermore, should he not use a different phonetic symbol to transcribe these vowels because his symbols seem to transcribe front rounded vowels? Are central vowels usually rounded or unrounded? Did he base this assumption on the vowels of Korean? Any response will be greatly appreciated.